Spotify’s Running Mode Asks You to Set a Tempo. Its Default Is 150 BPM.
The feature went live Thursday for Premium subscribers on iOS in seven markets, building playlists around a beats-per-minute figure the runner chooses. Research on cadence suggests 150 is the wrong place for most people to start.
Brands and Gear News
Sunshine Coast Marathon Medals Cleared From a Brisbane Dock Just Days Before the Race
A container holding finisher medals and shirts for Sunday’s record field reached the Port of Brisbane more than three weeks late. Organizers had already warned entrants they might finish with nothing to collect.
Race Coverage
The Commonwealth Games Don’t Need Saving. They Need A New Job.
A scaled-back Glasgow 2026 opens this month after nobody else wanted to host it. Instead of mourning what the Games used to be, here’s the case for what they could become.
Track and Field
This Year, 1.33 Million Runners Entered the London Marathon Ballot. The Commonwealth Games Cut Their Marathon, and Maybe Its Best Shot at a Future.
The marathon had been run at every Commonwealth Games since 1930. The plan that could have saved it would have made money, made headlines, and made history, and it died in the Scottish Parliament without anyone debating it, pricing it, or saying no.
Race Coverage
Everyone Will Call This the Robot Shoe. The Robot Is Not the Story.
On’s LightSpray Cloudboom Strike 2 arrives this week wrapped in the most futuristic upper in running. The real news is underfoot, where the company that built its identity on holes is quietly becoming something else.
Michael Doyle
Calories Aren’t the Whole Story: Why Carbohydrate Availability Matters For Runners
A new study separates calorie intake from carbohydrate intake, revealing why runners need to match both to their training load—not just total energy consumed.
Run Long Run Healthy
Olli Hoare Corrects the Record on Glasgow Incident as Australian Team Sheds Its Uniform
The Australian said he did not witness the killing reported in Glasgow’s east end last week. He is in Saturday’s mile final by appeal after being tripped in his heat.
Track and Field
David Mullarkey Won the Isle of Man’s First Athletics Medal. In 12 Days He Runs for Britain.
Mullarkey, 26, ran 27:50.28 for bronze in the rain at Scotstoun on Tuesday, the island’s first athletics medal in 68 years of competing at the Games. He races the 5,000m final Saturday, then joins the Great Britain team in Birmingham.
Track and Field
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